Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1885 — Foolish. [ARTICLE]

Foolish.

Everybody has a right to find fault with any appointment to public office, provided the fault-finding ifa reasonable and appears■ to have a foundation in fact and justice. But our esteemed contemporary, the Inter Ocean, goes far beyond these lines in assailing Mr. Manning. “Although an editor,” says the Inter Ocean of Mr. Manning, “he is merely a scurrilous, and not a dignified, astute, or accomplished journalist." This is grossly inaccurate. We have never known an editor less scurrilous or more dignified or astute than Mr. Manning. He never sacrifices decorum or dignity in criticising his opponents or in maintaining the cause he has espoused. After a considerable experience in the controversies of journalism and of politics, we do not hesitate to say that we do not know a combatant whose mode of public warfare is more moderate, judicious, or gentlemanly. These qualities Mr. Manning pre-eminently displayed in the recent national canvass. To him and to his astute and accomplished management, Mr. Cleveland's nomination was due; and yet, when the election was over, though after a most' passionate contest the candidate had succeeded by a slender plurality which barely fulfilled the requirements of the law, and though the Democracy of New York had been profoundly divided in the struggle, so that those who resisted Mr. Manning were scarcely loss numerous than those who went with him, yet this successful manager had just as many friends and just as few enemies as when the battle was first joined. Indeed, he probably had more friends and: fewer enemies; and what is true of him is equally true of the Albany Ara us, the journal he controls. We submit that, in view of foots like these, the remarks of the Inter Ocean are conspicuously untrue; and so, too, are the remarks of that other prominent Republican journal of the West, the Pioneer-Prese. ot Minnesota, which avers that Mr. Manning is “a machine politician of the most pronounced and dangerous typo, and should not be permitted to meddle with the affairs of Government in any official capacity." This is nonsense run wild, ana those who know Mr. Manning best will join us in the opinion that,- looking the whole country through, Mr. Cleveland could hardly make a more advisable appointment thin that which these Republican journals bo violently and unjtiHtly condemn.— New York Sun. In browsing through history the mind is often dazed in its attempts at trying to comprehend how mankind managed to endure the trials heaped upon it in the days when persecution went, about like a prairie on fire seeking whom it might reduce to ashes. But in those days profanity itself was regarded as a species of piety, and the man who could shoot out an expression strong enough to stand alone, without winking, no doubt possessed advantages that a clergyman putting up a stove in those degenerate times cannot enjoy. Political economy strikes a snag that won’t budge sometimes. The bulk of a loaf of bread indicates with unerring precision the condition of the times, but the size of a tobacco quid never varies. “Don’t let this hock-cur again!” as the father said to his sou, whom he < aught trying to pawn the family spitepuppy.